St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-20
moNTANA,s CATTLE BARON.
The Gigantic Project of Marquis dc
MOres for Supplying New York
with Beef.

NEW YORK, Feb. ia big fight is at
hand, and the prize is the meat supply of
New York city. Three opposing armies
have been struggling and planning during
the past year against each other. Each
possesses ammunition to the amount of over
500, 900, 600. Slight skirmishes have been
fought during the last few months. followed
by lull. During the week Just passed,
however, scheme has been unearthed
which, for boldness and enterprise, is un-
paralleled in the history of the
cleayer. The National Consumers Meat
company is its author, and has
succeeded in surprising its foes, the Chi
cago dressed beef men and the city slaugh-
tererS. This is the scheme: The sale of
Chicago dressed beef and city slaughtered
carcaSses is about even New York. Last
March the National Consumers Meat COM
pany opened five stores in this city. 1t
shipped dressed carcasses direct from the
rival not only of the city slaughterers and
the Chicago dressed beef men, but also of
the retail butchers. With its forces con-
centrated and its capital multiplied, it will
make vigorous and diplomatic attack upon
the city slaughterers and Chicago men.
Theus it proposes to win the retail butch
ers to its side by purchasing every shop in
New 7 YOrk for cash or by making the pro-
prletOr stakeholder in the company and
retalnlning him as manager of the business
transferred. The company of course will
supply all these stores with its can meats.
and owning every retail establishment in
the city there will be no outlay for any
other stock. This means the total abolition
OF city slaughtering and of all shipments of
Chicago dressed beef to New York. The
movement, it will thus be seen, is a very
bold one. The Marquis de Mores, who is
the general OF the CONSUMERS forces" is
very confident of success, though reluctant
at present to diclose the details of the
scheme in question.
"Our plan,' he said sis not to sell at
wholesale to the retail butchers as seems to
be the general impression. We desire to sell
our stock direct to the consumer. Our COM
pany is to be merged into another syndicate,
and having abundant capital we propose to
buy up every retail butcher store in this city,
either for cash or stock. If our negotiations
are not successful, why, we will open 800 or
400 independent retail shops. We desire first
to give the retail butcher chance to dispose
of his business. The city slaughterers cannot
compete with u.s.
A. g. Foster, of Kansas City, the COM
pany's western manager, who was present
during the interview, said that any possible
opposition from Chicago dressed beef was
not considered at present. Leading whole
sale local butchers are generally of the
opinion that the plan will not work. They
say that it will take about $50, 600, 600 to
begin with to buy out all the retail stores;
that this, however, will not give the COM
pany the trade, as its meat is not equal in
quality to the city dressed beef, and that
opposition shops will spring up all around
those of the syndicate. The managers here
of the Chicago dressed beef houses did not
think much of the scheme.